Mail-pouch projector.



PATBNTED JUNE 13 1905.

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J. D. BARBER. MAIL POUCH PROJECTOR.

APPLIUATION FILED 113.13. 1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

JOHN D. BARBER, OE CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MAIL-POUCH PROJECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,108, dated June 13,1905.

' Application sied February 18,1905. serial No. 246,224.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. BARBER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Pouch Projectors;and I do declare that the following isa full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to mailpouch projectors; and the object of theinvention is to provide a device or apparatus which will deliver amail-pouch, express-parcel, or package to a passing car under more orless speed and which is adapted to be initially actuated from the car,all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevationof my improved apparatus shown in connection with a car or a track. Eig.2 is an enlarged plan view of the apparatus on line fc w, Eig. 1,showing the casing therefor in section and a horizontal section of acar. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the apparatus and a cross-section ofthe shoe, which is fixed upon the car, as seen in Fig. 1, said figurebeing taken on line y y, Fig. 1.

As thus shown, A represents a car-body, presumably a mail or expresscar, with the usual slide-doors a and provided with a shoe a or otherrigid projection xed thereon at its bottom and side and presumably insuch relation to the door of the car that when the shoe contacts withthe said apparatus or means to operate the same the open door of the carwill receive the mail-pouch or other parcel projected thereinto from theapparatus.

B represents a bifurcated or forked actuating-lever pivotally supportedon a cross roller or bearing between its ends in the sides of the casingC, and said casing is fixed and rests upon a suitable base D at suchelevation as will bring the pouch or parcel to be deliveredsubstantially on a level or plane With the floor of the car or somewhatabove the ioor.

E represents a chute or tube fixed upon the casing C and containing apiston 2, under pressure by a spring 3 behind the same and resting backagainst a fixed abutment or diaphragm 4. A cord or rope 5 extends fromthe piston through spring 3 and diaphragm 4 over a rounded cross pieceor roller and thence over a drum or windlass 7, adapted to be rotated bya crank-lever 8.

rIhe bifurcations or arms 9 of lever B are constructed at theirextremities to engage upon spur-wheels 10 on the windlass-shaft at eachside of drum 7, and when the rope or cord 5 has been wound up by meansof crank 8 and spring 8 has been compressed to its maximum the said armsengage the said ratchet-Wheels and hold the entire device nnder tensionin iixed position. Then as a car passes and the shoe c strikes leverBand forcibly depresses it, raising the other end thereof or the arms 9out of engagement with wheels 10, the windlass-drum is immediatelyreleased, and spring 3 instantly acts and projects or shoots the pouchor parcel 12 into the car. The shoe a has an inclined engaging surfacewhere it strikes lever or arm B, so as not to make the engagement tooviolent and that a glancing stroke may suiiiciently raise the oppositeend or ends of the lever to trip the projecting mechanism and throw thepouch or parcel into the car. Then said lever resumes its engagingposition again, and the device is wound up by means of crank 8 foranother operation. Only enough vibration of lever B on its pivot torelease drum 7 is required. y

Tube E for the pouch may be square or circular in cross-section, andobviously the details described may be varied more or less and beequivalent in function to those shown, and hence not depart from thespirit of the invention.

What I claim is- 1. In mail-pouch-projecting devices, a suitable casing,a vibratory lever pivoted therein and having its engaging end projectingout beyond said casing, a rotatable drum and means operatively connectedtherewith operatively engaged by the inner end of said lever, a tubeover said casing and a piston therein, a cable engaged With said pistonand over said drum and a spring behind said piston, substantially asdescribed.

2. In mail-pouch-projecting devices, a suit- Ioo l able casing and anactuating-lever pivoted therein, a drum operatively engaged by saidlever, a spring-pressed piston for projecting the parcel and a cableconnected therewith and wound upon said drum, substantially asdescribed.

3. In devices for projecting mail-pouches and other parcels into movingcars, a suitable casing, and a parcel-receiving tube thereon, aspring-pressed piston in said tube, a drum and a cable engaged with saidpiston and wound upon said drum, and a lever constructed at one end tohold said drum in wound position and projecting at the other end beyond.said casing, substantially as described.

4. In devices for projecting mail-pouches and other parcels into movingcars, a drum and a lever arranged to be tripped by a passing caroperatively engaged with said drum, in combination with a casing adaptedto receive a package, a piston to project the package and a spring toactuate the piston, and a iiexible connection from the piston engagedover Said drum, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this speciiication in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN D. BARBER.

W'itnesses:

C. A. SELL, R. B. MOSER.

